[dvtrn]

If you’re lucky enough to live in an area where halfway decent reporting happens then maybe subscribing to the print edition makes sense.

I definitely would if there was actual value to it beyond reprinting AP articles I already read online two days ago because the local Newspaper itself is actually owned by a national media entity and contains maybe a page of news that actually feels locally informative-as was the case living in SmallTown USA.

Now, living in one of the US’ largest cities (Chicago), online community ‘zines’ tend to be more relevant to my block, whereas the city paper is pretty much only good for “the mayor upset a percentage of their constituency, and the Bears are still trying to figure out football”.

Every now and then there will be something truly informative for me as a citizen, but independent local reporting when done well and with care and vigor will always replace a physical paper from the traditional local entity for my consumption habits.

(That said newspaper crosswords are still for completely random and absolutely nonsensical reasons a magically anachronistic experience)

[bombcar]

The only really "local" paper left is actually just a classified ad section, but it IS all truly local and actually quite helpful (finding lots of stuff the internet doesn't care to know about).

I could see that having a short "letter from the editor" section that might grow ...

[dvtrn]

No clue why I didn’t bother mentioning it, but agreed! Along with crossword puzzles the local newspaper classifieds section has that same hyper local peep into what’s going on around you from lawsuits (sometimes very funny notices/threats are published) to community charity events that probably haven’t yet found their way to a tweet or timeline post

Good call out